She's done! She's done she's done she's done !!!!!!

Rhiannon is finished!  Picture is here, in the finished album and in the Rhiannon photo album!

Noooo - the chart strikes again!

Ok I've finished Rhiannon all bar the beading ...

I've added the red beads on ..... all going well - looks stunning ....

I go to add the gold bugle beads - they are too big !!!!

The chart definitely calls for medium gold bugle beads but that's wrong - only the small ones will fit, and wouldn't you know, I don't have small gold bugle beads - oh well off to the shops later this morning!

I'll do a few rows on Cirque while waiting for Paul to stir out of bed ....

Oh pics later - I'm attempting to {cough} Episode one of Torchwood for the next 13 hours ....

Long day

Well last night was the library staff dinner - due to a completely amazingly stupid error of judgement I ended up sitting next to the bozo who is wrecking all the good work I did int he library for the past 12 months - and opposite the library services manager and his mistress. He's the f'wit that has no empathy or care for any of staff except for the new young 20-something on his other side who he spent the night chatting up !!!

A few times I wanted to feign illness and escape but I didn't! I ate very very little - I felt sick to the stomach by the horrible self-serving lies coming out of both men's mouths and after the food I escaped up to the other end of the table where my friends were. Spent the rest of the night in fantastic company discussing servers, library specific software, the works of Naomi Novik and the origins of human evolution on earth.

Got home around 10:30pm, checked emails and went to bed - dragged myself out of bed long enough to scour the website Claire listed as a retail source of JAR threads - they also had a number of specials so I searched their site and made some good bargains on some kreinik threads etc and then right at the end while I was checking out they added $18.00 US postage !!!!!

For floss !!!!!! no way.

So I cancelled everything and went to work. Long dreary day - hot and I missed mist of the cricket. We held a book sale and there was so much of it I was giving away a whole box of books for 50 cents :) The sale had been ongoing for three days and anything that wasn't sold by COB today was going in the bin - so after lunch I started offering amazing discounts and deals - take as much as you want - we'll do a deal, how much money do you have ??? Oh yeah no worries 50 cents a box .....

Most of the good stuff had already been picked over in the past couple of days but I still found and brought home a full boxful myself - Paul turned up an hour before close and he still brought home a half box....

After work we went food shopping and then detoured on the way home and found a fantastic gluten-free organic health food supermarket!!!! And for a change their prices were competitive with the large supermarkets - they had gluten-free brands I had never seen before at reasonable prices. And 90-% of the stock was also organic - they have everything from canned food to fresh produce to meat to vegetarian meat substitutes to cleaning products to cosmetics - such a fantastic shop. DK they even have biodegradable disposable nappies !!!!

Anyway I was so hot and tired when we finally got home that I stripped off my work clothes, cracked open a beer and flopped down. Two hours later I'm on my fourth beer, I'm pleasantly buzzed, I've just emailed JAR threads directly to find a price and availability of the threads needed for "Is it my eyes"

I also put an order in with Wyndham Needlework's for fabric for: "Black Beauty or something in red", "why is it?" and "friendship tree" .......

Whoops dinner just got served, with my 5th beer ..... back soon .....

Oooh yummm - homemade falafel kebab wraps ..... first attempt and very yummy ... very very yummy !!!!!!

OK where was I - OK yeah I left work went shopping, found a fantastic new store came home, got changed drank beer, went internet shopping, drank more beer, Paul cooked us dinner, drank more beer ..... yep that's about it. Oh and we've listened to CD's by Wolfmother and my favourite Living End greatest hits and their cover album which is cool - their version of U2's Sunday bloody Sunday is better than the original! !!! My favourite band ever - hard rock meets punk - a Melbourne group - love these boys !!!!!

Feeling pretty good right now ..... Except I'm not sure - I feel drunk but I think this post was pretty much coherent and I did fancy things like look up internet sites and add links so I can drink a sixth beer if I feel like it over dessert ...... hmmm and I'm not sure I should be allowed access to my credit card and internet shopping while inebriated .....

OK gotta go now - obviously no stitching will be done tonight.... off to fall asleep during an episode or three of Beast Machines ....

What do I do next?

When I finish Rhiannon, what should I do next?

Go back to Mystery IX

 

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Work on a different WIP (if you are passionate please leave a reply indicating *which* WIP)

 

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Start a brand new piece (if you are passionate please leave a reply indicating *which* design)

 

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OK, Frishawn has spurred me on and I thought I'd try out the poll function on this site :)

Soooo please enter the poll - it closes Sunday morning Australian time - (ie when I finish Rhiannon).

Rhiannon - almost there

Well all of the stitching is done. She's washed and ironed. All I need to do is to add the beads and I'm done.

Gosh I'm feeling good about this :)

I'm working all day tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday and going out for dinner tomorrow night and having visitors around Saturday night - so the beads will hopefully go on Sunday morning and then she will be complete and ready for the framers.

Updated can pic can be seen here or in my Rhiannon album.

WIP - Faience

The Castle by Teresa Wentzler.

SAL for BAPXSCastle group

Previous Round Robins

Both of these motifs - the round one was sooo much fun!

Paradise Lost
by Long Dog Samplers

2006. The first part of this album is from a 12 person International Round Robin that was supposed to go for 12 months. My project was finally returned after 24 months and I was one of the lucky ones.

2007 - 2008. The second section of this album is a new UFO RR I'm in with some friends, starting with Claire's piece.